Part 14-13
“Subhuti, the Realised One is one who speaks genuinely, one who speaks truly, one who speaks as it is, one who speaks without deception, one who speaks without contradiction.”
Commentary:
What matters here is how we can hear and comprehend what the Buddha, the Realised One speaks genuinely. As I have said that the Buddha is not enlightened until we get enlightened, the Buddha speaks genuinely only when we can hear genuinely. No matter how genuinely the Buddha preaches, his words cannot be genuine words but rather Mara’s words unless we can accept them genuinely.
In order to apprehend his Dharma talk, we, keeping his words ‘Not a word did I say’ in mind, should not be deluded by words. Instead, we should see and hear each of his words as the function of the true-Self. When we can see and hear each of his words as the function of the true-Self, we can realise that all, including ourselves, what we see and hear is the same as each of his words, as the function of the true-Self. Only when we can hear and see everything as such can we hear the Buddha’s genuine words genuinely.
Student: “What are the words the Buddha spoke genuinely?”
Master: “Not words.”
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